[Explanation of a color]

The Chigusa-iro, it is a bright blue-tinged greenish slightly. The thing Tsuyukusa a name that was corruption from Tsukikusa and Chigusa of color name. Tones between Hana-iro and Asagi-iro by Aizen, I was used as a base color of the dyed superimposed many.
There is the “awe and Chikusa-iro the Sora-iro in metropolis” staining teaching manual of the Edo period to the “TekagamimoyouSetsuyou”, it is assumed to have been used in the Kinki region mainly. However, Sora-iro is the color a bit brighter than Chigusa-iro, including Purplish faintly in the strict sense.

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